On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:57:44AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 08:51 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: > >I'm trying to do an > >install, but so far I cannot seem to build a kernel that boots. > > What makes you think this is a kernel/motherboard issue ?? That is a very > popular motherboard so I don't think there's any major conflicts or > incompatibilities with it.
It is, when I got mine it was new enough that the .20 kernel didn't support the nforce chipset properly, and crashes occurred either apparently randomly, or while doing high volume network transfers (ie: copying my $HOME back from the machine it was backed up to :) I ended up finding the ac-sources kernel and it has worked like a charm since, with no special options other than selecting the nforce settings for agpgart and ide chipset. I'll send the original poster my .config offlist.
Once I found a kernel that worked, the MB has been rock solid, whereas before I was starting to doubt linux :)
As I told him, get the newest kernel possible. When 2.4.20 was released, did the nForce2 chipset exist ?? If not, it's hard to support it ! :-) Now you throw in SerialATA support on top of nForce2 and you really something current. I couldn't get USB support to work with my nForce2 (MSI) based board until I tried 2.4.23_preX kernels.
Hall
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